St. Luke's

On some days at St. Luke’s Hospital COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Boise, anxious tension experienced by some patients might be absorbed into the sounds of an instrument called the handpan, played by the hands of a self-taught volunteer eager to share its healing power.

Two Idaho doctors consider how to encourage more people to get the COVID-19 vaccine now that providers are reporting plenty of open appointments. What does vaccine hesitancy mean for the state's pandemic fight? Idaho Matters explores this and other listener questions.

Tuesday, the Central District Health Department opened up the COVID-19 vaccine to everyone over the age of 16 in Ada, Boise, Elmore and Valley counties.…

Children’s mental health is being greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and doctors around the world say what they’re seeing is alarming. From eating…

Since the start of the pandemic a year, we’ve all been living with some level of isolation as we practice social distancing to quell COVID-19. But inside…

In May 2020, many countries that had an outbreak of the coronavirus started reporting an inflammatory syndrome in some children. This is now called…

COVID-19 became a common household term approximately a year ago and has since become a central tenet in our lives. Now several vaccines to combat the…

Idaho’s largest hospital systems predicted they might need to ration health care before the end of 2020, but they haven’t reached that point yet.COVID-19…

Idaho Matters looks back at the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Gem State and around the world. On January 11, 2020, China recorded its first…

While Idaho health care workers received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine this week, hospitals remain strapped with patients forcing a possible…